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JULIJE KNIFER
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  • Composition
  • Gorgona Anti-magazine¸, No. 2
  • Draft for the Gorgona anti-magazine no. 2 (realized)
  • Julije Knifer’s Gorgona anti-magazine no. 2 in the daily newspaper medium
  • 21. VI — 7. VII 2. VII. — 4. VII 30. IX. — 2. X. 10. XI —15. XI. 82.
  • 13. VII — 16. VII 18. VII — 20. VII 22 — 23. VII 82. TU 4. II — 20. II 8. — 4. III 14. IV. — 29. IV. 84.
  • 3. IX. — 13. IX. 84
23. April 1924 - 07. December 2004
country
Ex Yugoslavia
period
1946-1968

Julije Knifer was a member of Gorgona (1959-1966), and a participant in the New Tendencies movement. His consistent reductionism impacted the second half of the 20th century in Croatian art. Even in his early self-portraits, created between 1949 – 1952, prior to his enrollment at the Academy of Fine Arts, it was possible to envision the direction in which Knifer would develop in the future. These drawings were created every day with a pencil, always using the same format, and always depicting the same facial expression void of psychological insight.

In Knifer's words, "what I discovered during this period, was that my drawings were no longer self-portraits but rather just one monotonous rhythm ... Out of this rhythmic sequence I realised that I didn't want to create a single painting, a work that would be self-contained and complete in and of itself. I understood that my drawings and my own images, were only one in a series of connected similar acts." This concept of art was significantly influenced by the serial music of that period popularized during the Zagreb Music Biennial, as well as in statements by Igor Stravinsky on music as rhythm. Both motivated Knifer to ultimately reduce his paintings to a rhythmic exchange of black and white, vertical and horizontal surfaces.

A year later, Knifer's drawings of Stenjevec, then a village near Zagreb, displayed a visible reduction in volume into surface. During 1957 and 1958, Knifer applied cubist principles to achieve extreme reduction, and to gradually separate his paintings from mimetic principles. Thus details taken from reality appeared less frequently and were less recognizable while colors also became systematically reduced.

The first Meanders occur in the 1959/60 period, as an expression of extreme reduction, aspiring to create anti-images and the aura of contemplation. Knifer remained faithful to the motif of Meander until the end of his life. In his own words Knifer described it as "the escalation of uniformity and monotony", a definition which art critic Zvonko Maković expanded to include the concept of the sporadic introduction of  "minimal, but artistically significant differences within one and the same formula”. Examples of such differences were the introduction of blue, gold and gray colors during the 1968 – 1970 period. In 1976, Knifer began a cycle of ever-larger-in-format drawings in order to achieve the powerful intensity of black, or to "put out the light."

From 1971 Knifer started to produce large-scale Meanders on exterior and interior walls. His first mural was created on the walls of Elementary school Gornje Vrapče, for the television show Urban Painting moderated by art historian Vera Horvat-Pintarić. Later he painted the lobby of SC Cinema (1979), the wall in Branimir Street (1987), PM Gallery (1987) - all locations in Zagreb, and in 1990, the Catalog hall of a university library in Dijon. In 1975, in the quarry near Tübingen with help of many collaborators, he painted a 20x30 m large banner. The Arbeitsprozess, as it was named, was documented with photographs and video.

In 1977, Knifer started a cycle of drawings with graphite on paper in which, drawing his meander motif with various pressures of graphite, he commenced the process of removing light from the drawing surface. These works, executed with careful and deliberate moves, reflected sharp awareness of the process. According to art historian Davor Matičević, these dense and smooth black surfaces contained all the "density of hopelessness." 

Julije Knifer was born in 1924 in Osijek. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1956. His Meanders were first exhibited in 1961 at the New Tendencies exhibition at the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, and again at the New Tendencies 2 in 1963, the New Tendencies 4 in 1969 and the New Tendencies 5 in 1973. He exhibited at the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1973 and at the Venice Biennial in 1976. During the 2001 Venice Biennial his work was represented at the Croatian Pavillion. Knifer died in 2004 in Paris.

J.Bubaš

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JULIJE KNIFER - SAMOSTALNE IZLOŽBE | SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1958. Knifer – Senečić, ULUH Salon, Zagreb
1960. Knifer – Seder, ULUH Salon, Zagreb
1962. Knifer, Studio G, Zagreb
1966. Julije Knifer, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
1970. Julije Knifer, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
1973. Julije Knifer, Galerie im Zimmer Theater, Tübingen
1974. Julije Knifer, Atelier Glasmeier, Gelsenkirchen
1976. Julije Knifer, Galleria del Cavallino, Venice
1976. Julije Knifer, Nova Gallery, Zagreb
1977. Julije Knifer, Students' Cultural Centre Gallery, Belgrade
1978. Julije Knifer, Nova Gallery, Zagreb
1978. Julije Knifer, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
1979. Julije Knifer, Labirint Gallery, Ljubljana
1979. Julije Knifer, Zodijak Gallery, Osijek
1979. Julije Knifer, Meduza Gallery, Koper
1979. Julije Knifer, Kunsthalle, Tübingen
1980. Knifer, Julije: crteži 1959. — 1979., Studio of the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
1983. Julije Knifer, Studio of the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
1984. Julije Knifer, Gallery of Fine Arts, Osijek
1984. Julije Knifer, Skenderija, Sarajevo
1985. Julije Knifer, Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg
1985. Julije Knifer, Studio D, Tübingen
1986. Julije Knifer, Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf
1986. Julije Knifer, Students' Centre Gallery, Zagreb
1987. Julije Knifer, Galerie Ingrid Dacic, Tübingen
1987. Do Meandra, House of JNA Salon, Zagreb
1987. Julije Knifer, Meandar Gallery, Apatin
1988. Julije Knifer, Extended Media Gallery, Zagreb
1988. Haft, Knifer, Pearson, Exhibition Space, London
1988. Julije Knifer, Galerie Ingrid Dacic, Tübingen
1988. Knifer i Kulmer, Karas Gallery, Zagreb
1989. Gorgona "...Jevsovar, Knifer,...", Art Plus Universite,  FRAC Bourgogne; Atheneum, Dijon
1989. Julije Knifer, Slike, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana
1989. Knifer, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
1990. Julije Knifer: Mäander 1960 – 1990, Galerie Dany Keller, München
1990. Julije Knifer, Richard Paul Lohse, Consortium, Dijon
1990. Julije Knifer/Jean Arp, Galerie Busche, Cologne
1990. Julije Knifer, Art Prospective, Geneva
1991. Julije Knifer, Galerie Joseph Dutertre, Rennes
1991. Julije Knifer, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon
1992. Julije Knifer à la Villa Saint-Clair, Espace Paul Boyé, Sète
1992. Julije Knifer, Galerie Busche, Cologne
1992. Julije Knifer, Villa Arson, Nice
1993. Julije Knifer, Sophia Ungers Gallerie, Cologne
1993. Knifer/Morellet, Galerie Verney-Carron, Villeurbanne
1994. Julije Knifer, Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg
1994. Julije Knifer, neue Arbeiten, 1991 – 1993, Forum für Kulturaustausch, Stuttgart
1995. Knifer/Molnar/Morellet, Galerie Oniris, Rennes, France
1996. Julije Knifer, La Box, Bourges
1996. Knifer/Floquet, MAMCO — Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva
1997. Julije Knifer, Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf
1997. Julije Knifer, peintures murales, MAMCO — Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva
1997. Julije Knifer, Ikona Gallery, Venice
1997. Julije Knifer, Galleria Rigo, Novigrad
1997. Julije Knifer, Galerie Busche, Berlin
1998. Knifer, Galerie Oniris, Rennes, France
1998. Julije Knifer, MAMCO — Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva
1999. Julije Knifer, galerie frank elbaz, Paris
2000. Julije Knifer, Autoportraits, 1949 — 1952, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain développe à Genève, Geneva
2000. Julije Knifer, Galerie Site Odéon n°5, Paris
2000. Julije Knifer, Galerie Georges Verney-Carron, Villeurbanne
2001. Opposizione Croata: Julije Knifer – Ivan Picelj, Galleria Starter, Milan
2001. Croatian Pavilion, Venice Biennial, Venice
2001. Julije Knifer, Galerie Oniris, Rennes
2001. Julije Knifer, Centre d'Art contemporain Bouvet Ladubay, Saumur, France
2002. Julije Knifer, galerie frank elbaz, Paris
2002. Julije Knifer, Gallery of Fine Arts, Osijek
2003. Julije Knifer, Maison de la Culture, Bourges
2004. François Morellet — Julije Knifer, Gisèle Linder Gallery, Basel
2004. Julije Knifer, Rigo Gallery, Novigrad
2005. Julije Knifer – Tomo Savić Gecan, Extended Media Gallery, Zagreb
2007. Julije Knifer, Kranjčar Gallery, Zagreb
2008. Knifer, Galerie Oniris, Rennes
2010. KNIFER. Lignes. Autoportraits, galerie frank elbaz, Paris
2011. Julije Knifer – MEANDER, Galerie Arndt, Berlin
2013. Julije Knifer, Adris Gallery, Rovinj
2013. Knifer/Stupica, Academia Moderna Gallery, Zagreb
2014. Julije Knifer, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
2014. Meandri, Museum of Slavonia, Osijek
2014. Julije Knifer: Bez kompromisa,  Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
2015. Mentalni Sklop_Sljedbenik Mentor: Marko Vojnić Gin_Julije Knifer, Kranjčar Gallery, Zagreb
2015. Bez kompromisa, Museum of Fine Arts, Osijek; Museum of Fine Arts, Split
2015. The meander is a form of my freedom, galerie frank elbaz, Paris
2016. Elements, Gregor Podnar Gallery, Berlin
2017. Julije Knifer, Mangelos. Investigating the Limits of Painting, galerie frank elbaz, Dallas
2017. Julije Knifer: I have probably already painted my last paintings, but maybe not the first ones, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich
2017. Investigating the Limits of Painting, galerie frank elbaz, Dallas, Texas
2018. Julije Knifer, MAMCO, Genève
2018. Mural Painting, galerie frank elbaz, Paris
2020. Julije Knifer: Meander, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
2020. Julije Knifer, Museum der Wahrnehmung MUWA, Graz
2020. Julije Knifer, Neue Galerie Graz & Naturkundemuseum, Joanneumsvertel, Graz

JULIJE KNIFER - JAVNI PROJEKTI | PUBLIC PROJECTS

1971. mural na Osnovnoj školi u Gornjem Vrapču |mural for the Gornje Vrapče Elementary School
1975. Arbeitsprozess, kamenolom kod Tübingena | stone quarry close to Tübingen
1987. oslikava zid u Branimirovoj ulici u Zagrebu | wall painting in Branimirova Street in Zagreb
1988. oslikava zidove Galerije PM u Zagrebu | wall painting in the Gallery of Extended Media in Zagreb
1990. izvodi mural za dvoranu kataloga u Bibliothèque droit-lettres | mural for the hall of the Bibliothèque droit-lettres, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon
2001. izvodi mural u sklopu nastupa na Bijenalu u Veneciji | mural as part of his participation at the Venice Biennale
2002. izvodi mural u centru za suvremenu umjetnost La Pleteau u Parizu |  mural at the centre for contemporary Art La Pleteau in Paris
2007. izvodi freske na stanici metroa Jean Jaurès | frescos at the underground stop in Jean Jaurès, Toulouse

JULIJE KNIFER - GROUP EXHIBITIONS | GRUPNE IZLOŽBE

1959. Izložba ULUH-a, Art Pavilion, Zagreb
1960. Izložba ULUH-a, Art Pavilion, Zagreb; Mali Kalemegdan Art Pavilion, Belgrade
1961. Slikarstvo — kiparstvo 61, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
1961. Salon 61, Modern Gallery, Rijeka
1961. Nove tendencije, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
1961. I. trijenale likovnih umetnosti, Belgrade Fair, Belgrade
1961. Art abstrait constructif international, Galerie Denis René, Paris
1961. Kolektivna izložba, Studio G, Zagreb
1961. Jugoslawische Maler, Studio F, Ulm
1962. Krajnosti, Museum of Fine Arts, Split
1962. Kolektivna izložba, Studio G, Zagreb
1962. Konstruktivisten, Städtisches Museum, Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen
1962. II. likovna jesen, Municipal Museum, Sombor
1963. Oltre l'informale, Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, San Marino
1963. Panorama decenija hrvatskog slikarstva 1952. – 1962., Students' Centre Gallery, Zagreb
1963. Akvizicije, Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
1964. Neue Tendenzen, Städtisches Museum, Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen
1964. 2. trijenale likovnih umetnosti, Belgrade Fair, Belgrade
1965. 22 suvremena slikara, Gallery of Painting, Osijek
1965. Aktuell '65, Gallerie Aktuell, Bern
1965. Akvizicije 3, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
1966. Sommerausstellung 1966, Galerie Aktuell, Bern
1966. Bienale industrijskega oblikovanja, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
1966. Akvizicije 4, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
1966. II. zagrebački salon, Art Pavilion, Zagreb
1966. Moderne kroatische Kunst, Orangerie im Schlossgarten, Eisenstadt
1967. EXPO 67, World's Fair, Montreal
1967. 3. trijenale likovnih umetnosti, Belgrade Fair, Belgrade
1967. Akvizicije 5, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
1968. 3. zagrebački salon, Art Pavilion, Zagreb
1969. Tendencije 4, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
1969. Contemporary Art in Yougoslavia, The American Federation of Arts, SAD
1969. Arte figurativa zagabrese d'oggi, Archiginnasio, Bologna
1969. Neue Tendenz: Ausstellung jugoslaw, Künstlersiedlung Halfmannshof, Halfmannshof
1970. IV Belgradeski trijenale jugoslovenske likovne umetnosti, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
1971. 9. mednarodna grafična razstava, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
1971. Neue Tendenz; 10 Künstler aus Zagreb, Landesmuseum, Mainz; Reichert-Haus, Ludwigshafen
1972. De consequensies van de Machine, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1972. Maskinens konsekvenser: Nye tendenser i jugoslavisk billedkunst, Danmarks tekniske Museum, Helsingør
1972. Izložba skica, Art Pavilion, Zagreb
1972. Jugoslovenska grafika 1965.—1972., Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
1972. 7. Zagrebačka izložba jugoslavenske grafike, JAZU Cabinet of Graphics, Zagreb
1972. Graveerkunst von Kroatiaë 1967—1971, Ontmoetingscentra, Ostend1972. 100 djela 72 autora, Galerija "Kvatrić", NAMA, Zagreb
1973. 10. mednarodna grafična razstava, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
1973. 27 Premio Michetti, Francavilla Mare, Pescara
1973. XII. Biennale de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo
1973. Nove tendecije 5, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
1973. Yugoslavian Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry
1973. Kortars Jugoslav Festzet, Szent István Király Múzeum, Budapest
1973. Contemporary Yugoslavian Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokio; Kyoto
1974. Jugoslawische Kunst der Gegenwart, Jahrhundert Halle, Höchst; Erholungshaus Bayer, Leverkusen
1974. Internationale Grafik Biennale, Kunstverein zu Frechen, Frechen
1974. Likovne teme danas, Art Pavilion, Zagreb
1974. Slike — Paintings, Students' Cultural Centre Gallery, Belgrade
1974. 100 dela na sovremenata hrvatska umetnost, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
1974. 1. Bijenale suvremene hrvatske grafike, Museum of Fine Arts, Split
1974. Izložba apstraktnog slikarstva, Students' Cultural Centre Gallery, Belgrade
1975. Aspects 75, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
1975. Aspekte gegenwärtige Kunst aus Jugoslawien, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna
1975. Oblici geometrizma u savremenoj grafici, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
1975. 11. mednarodni grafični bienale, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
1975. Susreti znanosti i umjetnosti, Salon of the House of JNA, Zagreb
1975. Dokumentation der Ausstellunggreihe 1969—1975, Atelier Rolfglasmeir, Gelsenkirchen
1976. Aspects '75 – Contemporary Yugoslav Art, The City, Dublin; The Ulster Museum, Belfast; Art Gallery, The Third Eye Center, Glasgow
1976. Radovi na papiru, House of Youth Gallery, Belgrade
1976. XVI. Annale, The museum of the Poreč territory, Istrian Assembly Hall, Poreč
1976. 9. Zagrebačka izložba jugoslavenske grafike, JAZU Cabinet of Graphics, Zagreb
1976. Contemporary Yugoslav Prints, Association of Science-Technology Centers, Washington, SAD
1976. Venice Biennale, Yugoslav Pavilion, Venice
1977. Peti Belgradeski trijenale jugoslovenske likovne umetnosti, "Cvijeta Zuzorić" Art Pavilion, Belgrade
1977. Moderne Kunst in Kroatien, Rathaus, Mainz
1977. Trigon 77, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
1977. Aktualnosti u hrvatskoj likovnoj umetnosti, "Cvijeta Zuzorić" Art Pavilion, Belgrade
1977. Sul Concetto di Serie. Secondo simposium del Centro internazionale d'arte costruttiva, Museo Civico di Villa Mirabello, Varese
1977. Gorgona, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Students' Cultural Centre Gallery, Belgrade; Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbac
1977. Aktualnosti u hrvatskoj likovnoj umjetnosti, Karas Gallery, Zagreb
1978. Nova umjetnička praksa 1966 – 1978, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
1978. 13. zagrebački salon, Art Pavilion, Zagreb
1978. Atributivne vježbe, Centre for Multimedia Research, Zagreb
1978. 5. Internationale Grafik Biennale, Frechen
1978. Izložba u okviru akcije Minimalna glazba, Students' Centre Gallery, Zagreb
1978. Tendenzen in der jugoslawischen Kunst von heute, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund; Staatliches Museum, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Nürnberg
1978. Mala slika, Galerija Meduza, Koper
1979. 1. Biennale der europäischen Grafik, Schloss und Alte Universität, Heidelberg
1979. The 11th International Biennal Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka
1979. Od Babića do Knifera, Graphic Institute of Croatia, Zagreb
1979. 13. mednarodni grafični bienale, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
1979. XV. Biennale de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo
1980. 15. zagrebački salon, Art Pavilion, Zagreb
1980. Listovi, Galerija Karas, Zagreb; City Art Gallery, Ljubljana
1980. Međunarodna izložba likovnih umetnosti Belgrade '80, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
1980. Nove pojave u hrvatskom slikarstvu, Nova Gallery, Zagreb
1980. Slika = Slika, Workers' University, Culture Centre, Belgrade
1980. Jugoslovensko slikarstvo šeste decenije, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
1981. 16. zagrebački salon, Art Pavilion, Zagreb
1981. 7. motovunski likovni susreti – Transformacije papira, Motovun Municipal Museum, Motovun
1981. XVI Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhao Armando Arruda Pereira, São Paulo
1982. Inovacije u hrvatskoj umjetnosti 70-ih godina, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
1982. Primjeri primarnog i analitičkog slikarstva u Jugoslaviji 1974—1980, Gallery of Fine Arts, Osijek
1983. Minimalizam u Jugoslaviji, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
1983. Jugoslawische Konstruktivismus 1921 — 1981, Museum Ratingen, Ratingen
1983. L'Ultima avanguardia, Palazzo Reale, Milan
1985. Pet umjetnika iz Zagreba (Marijan Jevšovar, Julije Knifer, Ivan Kožarić, Đuro Seder, Josip Vaništa), Gallery of Fine Arts, Osijek
1986. U susret muzeju suvremene umjetnosti – 30 godina Galerije suvremene umjetnosti, Museum Space, Zagreb
1986. Jevšovar, Knifer, Kožarić, Seder, Vaništa, Students' Cultural Centre Gallery, Belgrade
1986. Geometrije, Karas Gallery, Zagreb
1986. Jugoslovenska grafika 1950 — 1980, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
1986. Die Ecke, Hoffmann Galerie, Friedberg
1986. Konkret sieben, Kunsthaus, Nürnberg
1987. Panorama du XXème siècle, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble
1990. Cinq installations d'art, Ancienne Usine Plainpalais, Ženeva
1991. Collection du Consortium Château d'Oiron, Oiron, Francuska
1992. Manifeste, Centre George Pompidou, Paris
1992. Kortárs horvát művészet, Ernst Múzeum, Budapest
1992. Noir et Blanc, Galerie du Théâtre National de Bretagne, Rennes
1992. Identität: Differenz – 1940 – 1990. Eine Topographie der Moderne, Tribune Trigon, Graz
1992. Les Mystère de l'Auberge Espagnole, Villa Arson, Nica
1992. Autor d'une Passion, Château du Fraisse, Fraïssé-des-Corbières
1993. Noir dessin, Centre George Pompidou, Paris
1993. Charlton—Knifer—Knoebel—Mosset—Nixon, Sophia Ungers Galerie, Köln
1993. The Horse who Sings — Radical Art from Croatia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1993. Blicke in Archiv, Hoffmann Galerie, Friedberg
1994. Europa, Europa. Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel und Osteuropa, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
1995. Konstruktivizam i kinetička umjetnost, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
1995. Morceaux choisis d'Fond National, Centre d'art contemporain, Le Magazin, Grenoble
1996. XXXI. Porečki anale, Istrian Assembly Hall, Poreč
1996. 125 vrhunskih djela hrvatske umjetnosti, House of HDLU, Zagreb
1996. Histoires de blanc & noir, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble1996. Panorama 1981—1996, La Collection du FRAC Bretagne, Rennes
1997. Made in France, Centre George Pompidou, Paris
1997. Gorgona, Gorgonesco, Gorgonico, Venice Biennial, Ex Macello, Dolo
1997. Geografia – Geometria, Municipal Cultural Centre, Bratislava
1997. Ainsi de suite, Centre régional d'art contemporain, Sète
1997. Reduction, Goddard de Fides Gallery, Perth
1998. Le Dessin en Procès, Château d'Eau, Bourges
1998. Dessiner-Décider, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Quimper
1998. Le Trésor, Le Consortium, Dijon
1988. Un Certain Classicisme, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole
1998. Abstraktion zwischen 1945 und 1959, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
1999. Fragments, FRAC Bretagne, Lannion
1999. Estampes et Art Géométrique, Musée de Vannes, Musée de Vannes
1999. Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Positionen der konkreten und konstruktiven Kunst, Das Richard Haizmann Museum, Basel
1999. This is yesterday, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Le Consortium, Dijon
2000. Lignes de Conduite, Espace de l'Art concret, Mouans-Sartoux
2000. Concrete Art in Six Countries of Central Europe from 1945 to These Days, Varos Muvészeti Muzeum Képtara, Jura, Hungary
2000. 2000+ ArtEast Collection, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
2000. Aspekte/Positionen: 50 Jahre Kunst aus Mitteleuropa 1949 – 1999, Museum moderner Kunst Stifung Ludwig, Vienna
2000. Art Concret, Espace de l'Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
2000. Art in Central Europe 1949 – 1999, Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona
2000. Partage, Galerie Georges Verney-Carron, Lyon
2000. Passé composé / Futur antérieur, Musée d'art Roger Quilliot, Clermont Ferrand
2001. Exat 51, 1951-1956 : Novas Tendências, 1961-1973, Centro Cultural de Cascais, Cascais, Portugal
2001. Porečki anale — suprotstavljanje i kontinuitet Novih tendencija, Istrian Assembly Hall, Poreč
2001. Théâtre de la cruauté (Héautontimoroumenoï), Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
2001. Formes du simple 2, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
2001. De Artaud... à Twombly, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2001. Bianco e Nero, Vismara Arte, Milan
2002. The Art of Today, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble
2002. Appunti sull'Arte Contemporanea Croata, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Ravenna
2003. Linien, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel
2003. Le Diable Evidemment, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brest
2003. Le noir est une couleur, Galerie Lahumière, Paris
2003. Multiples, Gisèle Linder Gallery, Basel
2004. Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s — 70s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2004. Passage d'Europe, Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne
2005. Rubne posebnosti – avangardna umjetnost u regiji 1915. – 1989.,  Gallery Centre Varaždin, Varaždin
2005. East Art Museum. An Exhibition of the East Art Map – A (Re)Construction of  Contemporarary History (1945 — 1985) in Eastern Europe, Osthaus-Museum, Hagen
2005. Essence of Life – Essence of Art, Ludwig Múzeum — Kortárs Művészeti Múzeum
2006. Rubne posebnosti: avangardna umetnost ex-Jugoslavije 1914 – 1989, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodine, Novi Sad
2006. Au-delà de la géométrie (art construit, minimal, sériel), FRAC Limousin, Limoges
2006. Arteast Collection 2000+23, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
2006. Die Neuen Tendenzen, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
2007. Rubne posebnosti: Avangardna umjetnost u regiji 1915. – 1989., Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
2007. Apstrakcija – Modernizam i suvremenost, Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb
2007. Gorgona iz Kolekcije Macura, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
2007. Ligne B — Connexion aux Abattoirs, Les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse
2007. White-Black, Museum Vasarely, Budapest
2008. Why here is always somewhere else, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
2008. Odsutni/Prisutni, Museum of Fine Arts, Split
2008. Kiedy rano otwieram oczy, widzę film. Eksperyment w sztuce jugosławii w latach 60. I 70.,  Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Warsaw
2009. Slavonija, Baranja i Srijem — vrela europske civilizacije, Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb
2010. Changing the World, ARNDT, Berlin
2010. Les Promesses du passé. Une histoire discontinue de l'art dans l'ex-Europe de l'Est, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2010. Listen to your Eyes, Ecole Supérieure d'art, Metz
2010. Modern Times: responding to chaos, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
2011. Black Should Bleed To Edge, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts Rouen, Rouen
2011. Blago Umjetničke galerije Dubrovnik — Hrvatska umjetnost od kraja 19. st. do danas, Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik
2011. Kunst der siebziger Jahre, Dany Keller Galerie, Munich
2011. Géométries de l'Âme, DIX291, Paris
2011. Kontakt Collection, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
2011. Mouvements, Abbaye Espace d'art Contemporain, Annecy-le-Vieux
2011. Mortel suite et fin, une proposition de Mathieu Mercier, FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen
2011. Gorgona (...Knifer, Mangelos, Vaništa...), galerie frank elbaz, Paris
2011. Museum of Parallel Narratives. In the framework of L'Internationale, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
2012. Usudi se probati, Lauba, Zagreb
2012. Scenes from Zagreb: Artist's Publications of the New Art Practice, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2012. Apstrakcija – Modernizam i suvremenost, Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb
2013. Une brève histoire de lignes, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz
2013. Section des stylites, MAMCO, Ženeva
2013. Gorgona: Please Attend, Zak/Branicka, Berlin
2013. Transition Noir & Blanc, Galerie Oniris Rennes, Rennes
2013. Sedanjost in prisotnost: ponovitev 4 — mikropolitične situacije, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
2014. Personal Cuts : art à Zagreb de 1950 à nos jours, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes
2014. The Mysterious Device Was Moving Forward, Longhouse Projects, New York
2014. Observations, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana
2015. Reflets, Centre d'Art contemporain Bouvet Ladubay, Saumur, France
2015. Rituels, répétitions, contraintes, tentations, Plateforme Roven dans le Cabinet d'arts graphique, Musée régional d'art contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, France
2015. Biens Publics, Musée Rath, Geneva
2015. Collection. Un rêve d'éternité, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes
2015. Zig Zag, Honolulu Art Gallery, Hawaii
2015. Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960 – 1980,  Museum of Modern Art, New York
2015. Gorgona, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
2015. Knifer, Mangelos, Vaništa, Galerija Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
2016. Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945–1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich
2016. Art in Europe 1945 — 1968: Facing the Future, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe
2016. Modernità Non Allineata. Arte e Archivi dell'Est Europa dalla Collezione Marinko Sudac, FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2017. My sweet little lamb (Everything we see could also be otherwise), Home of HDLU, Zagreb
2017. Meandering, Abstractly, galerie frank elbaz, Dallas
2017. El nem kötelezett művészet – Marinko Sudac gyűjteménye, Ludwig Múzeum — Kortárs Művészeti Múzeum, Budapest
2017. Gorgona, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
2017. Inny Trans-Atlantyk. Sztuka kinetyczna i op-art w Europie Wschodniej i Ameryce Łacińskiej w latach 50. – 70., Museum on the Vistula, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw
2018. In Memoriam – Josip Vaništa, Šira Gallery, Zagreb
2018. Dediščina 1989. Študijski primer: druga razstava Jugoslovanski dokumenti, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
2018. Hello World. Revision einer Sammlung, Hamburger Bahnhof –Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
2018. Okruženju usprkos, Home of HDLU, Zagreb
2018. Labyrinth konkret ... mit Nebenwegen, Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Würzburg
2018. Recollection – A Journey After 28 Years, PROYECTOSMONCLOVA, Mexico City
2018. The Other Trans-Atlantic. Kinetic and Op Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America 1950s – 1970s, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2018. Upute za gledanje – Što bi tijelo htjelo?, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
2018. Mesta trajnosti. Paviljoni, manifesti in kripte, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana
2019. A View from Zagreb: Op and Kinetic Art, Tate Modern, London
2019. GORGONA 1959–1968. Független művészeti törekvések Zágrábban. Retrospektív kiállítás a Marinko Sudac gyűjteményből, Kassák Múzeum, Budapest
2019. Radoslav Putar i Miljenko Horvat. Retrospektiva, Varaždin City Museum, Varaždin
2019. GORGONA. Prace z kolekcji Marinko Sudaca, Profile Foundation, Warsaw
2019. Ikonografija grada II. (1950. – 2000.+) Vizije grada, Modern Gallery, Zagreb